Very overfilled car park damage - Are they liable?

BeenThroughItAll

That carpark looks dead familiar to me. Probably because all estates look the same these days, but it reminds me of somewhere not far up the road from where I work in Durham.

TheOneWhoKnocks

Herzlos wrote: »

2 new bumpers + resprays could come to the fat end of £2k. Especially if there's things like parking sensors to deal with.


OP - you said there's another company that doesn't use all of their bays? Have you tried asking the company direct if you can use one of their empty ones? No on-street parking a bit further away?

Thank you for seeing how it could easily cost £2k (although it's about £1k, which isn't much better lol)

They don't use all of their bays, but there facilities manager is a right n*bhead and has a go when we try and use there spaces, even though he can see the absolute state ours is in.

I believe he will rent them to us, but at an expensive price, and my company won't pay it.

TheOneWhoKnocks

NBLondon wrote: »

That was my thought when I saw the picture... If they regularly have space available, (left side of picture) I'm surprised you and your colleagues haven't just tried parking in it anyway... Does the landlord clamp people for not being in their own zone? If they did, I'd expect them to clamp the double-parkers too, Plus the red hatchback bottom left which is partly in a handicapped slot - due to the blue BMW being parked across 1 and 1/4 spaces.

See my above reply to the first question

I don't actually know if they are supposed to be clamped, but no one has been yet.

The front row is only for SMT so we don't even have the front row. There is two disabled spaces and they are always taken by non disabled cars.

greatgimpo

That's a beautiful parking spot the skip managed to find:cool:.

AdrianC

TheOneWhoKnocks wrote: »

I don't actually know if they are supposed to be clamped, but no one has been yet.

It's illegal to clamp on private land.

Herzlos

TheOneWhoKnocks wrote: »

I believe he will rent them to us, but at an expensive price, and my company won't pay it.

Have you asked how much he'd want to rent one privately to you? He might be open to a bottle of whisky every few weeks to cast a blind eye.

TheOneWhoKnocks

AdrianC wrote: »

I doubt that.

Not, of course, that that makes much difference - there are other ways to get to the office.

The whole business park is double yellow lines, the road outside the business park is a busy road which you cannot park on, and is a long stretch and is round about a mile before you could park your car. Even at that it would be in a place you shouldn't park everyday.

TheOneWhoKnocks

Someone in my team has literally just gone out to their car which was parked on their gravel bit on 'their side' with a note in a plastic cover saying its for their company only.

They literally have 20 cars in and 80 spaces.

BeenThroughItAll

I literally cannot believe this thread ever existed.

AdrianC

TheOneWhoKnocks wrote: »

Someone in my team has literally just gone out to their car which was parked on their gravel bit on 'their side' with a note in a plastic cover saying its for their company only.

Which it is.

They literally have 20 cars in and 80 spaces.

Their company pays for 80 spaces.
Your company pays for 40 spaces.
Why should your company be rewarded for their penny-pinching parsimony by being allowed to use what somebody else pays for, but chooses not to use?

If all the desk space in your company's office is full, would you expect to be able to use a spare desk in their office?